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The WPIAL basketball regular season wraps up on Saturday with the League’s steering committee set to release playoff brackets Monday afternoon. Most teams have one game remaining with a few playoff spots still to be decided. Here’s a look at the playoff status for the 19 schools from the Washington/Greene County area. (* clinched at least a share of the section title)

Girls
IN–Bentworth (2A), Beth-Center (2A), Burgettstown (2A), California (2A), Canon-McMillan* (6A), Chartiers-Houston* (2A), Fort Cherry* (2A), McGuffey (3A), Trinity (5A), Waynesburg (3A),  West Greene (1A)
ALIVE–Peters Township (5A), Ringgold (4A), Wash High (3A)
OUT–Avella (1A), Charleroi (3A), Carmichaels (2A), Jeff-Morgan (2A), Mapletown (1A)

Boys
IN–Avella (1A), Bentworth (2A), Beth-Center (2A), Charleroi (3A), Chartiers-Houston* (2A), Fort Cherry (2A), Peters Township (5A), Wash High (3A), Jeff-Morgan (2A), Waynesburg (3A), West Greene (2A),
ALIVE–McGuffey (3A), Ringgold (5A)
OUT–Burgettstown (2A), California (2A), Canon-McMillan (6A), Trinity (5A), Carmichaels (2A), Mapletown (2A)

It was a full slate, and then some, on the high school basketball calendar Tuesday with all 19 Washington/Greene boys teams in section action, joined by nine girls games involving teams from the two-county area. Wash High went wire-to-wire to beat Carlynton, the Little Prexies clinching a playoff spot. McGuffey lost at Sto-Rox, keeping the Highlanders from punching their ticket. McGuffey will have to beat Wash High Friday night to reach the playoffs. Both Canon-McMillan (6A) and Trinity (5A) were eliminated with losses. Ringgold will have to win at Trinity Friday to qualify. Avella sprinted past Aquinas Academy, keeping the Eagles within reach of at least a share of the 1A Section 1 title.

On the girls side Tuesday, Fort Cherry and Chartiers-Houston each wrapped up outright section championships. Burgettstown’s loss pulls the Blue Devils into a tie for second place. Wash High girls heads to Keystone Oaks Thursday needing to win to clinch a playoff berth. Ringgold’s loss drops the Rams into a tie with Laurel Highlands for the final playoff berth but the Mustangs hold the head-to-head tie-breaker. Here’s the Tuesday section scoreboard:

Boys
6A Norwin 49, Canon-McMillan 45
5A Peters Township 59, Ringgold 50
5A South Fayette 54, Trinity 43
3A Wash High 56, Carlynton 43 Watch/Listen Here
3A Sto-Rox 72, McGuffey 35
3A Ligonier Valley 63, Waynesburg 44
3A Charleroi 96, Brownsville 65
2A Bentworth 64, California 15
2A Chartiers-Houston 63, Mapletown 13
2A West Greene 63, Fort Cherry 42
2A Beth-Center 74, Burgettstown 54
2A Jeff-Morgan 68, Carmichaels 41
1A Avella 69, Aquinas Academy 50

Girls
4A South Park 45, Ringgold 22
3A Seton-La Salle 64, Wash High 25
3A Keystone Oaks 72, Charleroi 29
2A Fort Cherry 59, Brentwood 21
2A South Side Beaver 35, Burgettstown 34
2A Chartiers-Houston 55, California 37
2A Bentworth 68, Carmichaels 45
1A Serra Catholic 69, Mapletown 17
1A West Greene 42, Monessen 31

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Sam Lewis scored 15 points, Thijs De Ridder had 10 points and 12 rebounds and No. 18 Virginia beat Pittsburgh 67-47 while scoring its fewest points this season. De Ridder, the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week, had his third double-double of the season. Chance Mallory scored 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting for the Cavaliers, and Malik Thomas had 10 points. Virginia has won three straight and eight of nine, with its only loss in that stretch coming to now-No. 14 North Carolina. Cameron Corhen and Nojus Indrusaitis scored 11 points apiece for the Panthers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bo Horvat scored his second goal of the game 52 seconds into overtime and the New York Islanders beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-4. Mathew Barzal had a goal and two assists, Ilya Sorokin made 31 saves and New York snapped its two-game skid. Matthew Schaefer added a goal and an assist, and Ryan Pulock also scored for the Islanders. Justin Brazeau had a goal and an assist for the Penguins, who dropped their second consecutive game. Anthony Mantha, Egor Chinakhov and Bryan Rust also scored. Stuart Skinner stopped 18 shots. Horvat, who also had an assist, buried a breakaway in overtime to give the Islanders a critical victory in their second-to-last game before the Olympic break.